War in the Pacific

Strategy and Command - The First Two Years

• Author(s): Louis Morton,
• Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
• Pages: 787
• ISBN_10: 0160018889
  ISBN_13: 9780160018886
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General , History / Military / United States , History / United States / 20th Century , History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) ,

Description:...

Analyzes organization and logistics as well as strategy and command, covering the coming of World War II, Japanese policy and American strategy before Pearl Harbor, Japanese victories in the first six months of the war, first efforts in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands to stem the Japanese tide and the limited offensive in the summer of 1943. Includes maps, tables, charts, illustrations, appendixes, bibliographical note, glossaries and index.